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el⋅dritch

  [el-drich]
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–adjective
eerie; weird; spooky.
Also, eldrich, elritch.

Origin:
1500–10; earlier elrich, equiv. to OE el- foreign, strange, uncanny (see else ) + rīce kingdom (see rich ); hence “of a strange country, pertaining to the Otherworld”; cf. OE ellende in a foreign land, exiled (c. G Elend penury, distress), Runic Norse alja-markir foreigner
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el·dritch   (ěl'drĭch)   
adj.  Strange or unearthly; eerie.

[Perhaps Middle English *elriche : Old English el-, strange, other; see al-1 in Indo-European roots + Old English rīce, realm; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
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Eldritch

El"dritch\, a. Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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